| prevalence of west nile virus neutralizing antibodies in spain is related to the behavior of migratory birds. | west nile virus (wnv) is a bird flavivirus capable of infecting horses and humans that is transmitted by blood-sucking vectors. in europe and africa, sporadic infections and outbreaks causing human illness and deaths have occurred and have led to 2 mutually nonexclusive hypotheses regarding the circulation of wnv in europe: (1) the occurrence of endemic sylvatic cycles that occasionally result in human or equine infection, or (2) sporadic seeding of wnv by migratory birds from areas where the vi ... | 2008 | 18399777 |
| detection and monitoring of mosquito flaviviruses in spain between 2001 and 2005. | between the years 2001 and 2005, a total of 72,895 female mosquitoes were trapped during their season of abundance, and analyzed. they were sorted into 4,723 pools belonging to 20 culicidae species from the anopheles, aedes, ochlerotatus, culex, culiseta, coquillettidia, and uranotaenia genera. the aim was to detect arboviral rna directly from mosquito homogenates for the genera alphavirus, flavivirus, and phlebovirus. the study formed part of general arbovirus transmission research in four of t ... | 2009 | 18959502 |
| bagaza virus in partridges and pheasants, spain, 2010. | in september 2010, an unusually high number of wild birds (partridges and pheasants) died in cádiz in southwestern spain. reverse transcription pcr and virus isolation detected flavivirus infections. complete nucleotide sequence analysis identified bagaza virus, a flavivirus with a known distribution that includes sub-saharan africa and india, as the causative agent. | 2011 | 21801633 |
| monitoring of the west nile virus epidemic in spain between 2010 and 2011. | west nile virus (wnv) is a mosquito-transmitted flavivirus recognized as an emerging and re-emerging pathogen in different countries. this study describes the monitoring of the first wnv epidemic in spain between 2010 and 2011. between september and december 2010, 36 outbreaks of wnv in horses were reported in three different provinces of andalusia (southern spain), with no apparent spread outside this area. the temporal distribution and the clinical signs observed during the wnv epidemic in spa ... | 2011 | 22212118 |